Comfortably Numb Pulse 1994 · Pink Floyd

67 bars, 4:15, at 63 BPM: slow enough that every note is exposed. Crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick and nothing else.

RockProgressiveUnder 90 BPM
TEMPO
63 BPM
TIME
4/4
BARS
67
LENGTH
4:15
DIFFICULTY
40/100
THE BEAT

One bar, and 72% of the song

The beat the song is built on is one bar, played through bars 2-4, 6-8 and 10-12, and 13 more places -- 71.6% of every bar the kit plays. Learn that one and the song is very nearly finished.

LOOP · 63 BPM
COMFORTABLY NUMB PULSE 1994 · BAR 3
THE BEAT, WRITTEN OUT →
THE FILLS

Where it comes off the beat

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 9, 65, 66 and 67.

LOOP · 63 BPM
BAR 1 · LANDS ON BAR 2 · PLAYED 2 TIMES
LOOP · 63 BPM
BARS 65-67 · PLAYED 3 TIMES
EVERY FILL, WRITTEN OUT →
THE SHAPE

How the song is built

67 bars: 62 keep time and 5 are fills. The longest unbroken stretch of time is bars 10-64.

OUTRO
1 grooveBFill into the next barFill that ends a sectionInto the next partStop / hitRest

Questions

What BPM is Comfortably Numb Pulse 1994?

63 BPM, in 4/4, with the time kept in sixteenth notes. Slow enough to hear every mistake, which is why the room lets you sit at the written tempo rather than under it.

Is Comfortably Numb Pulse 1994 hard to play on drums?

40 out of 100 -- a fair first song -- with the independence between the hands and the feet the part that decides it. The beat itself is 18 out of 100; the rest of the number is everything around it.

How long is the drum part?

67 bars, about 4:15 at the written tempo. The course breaks it into 6 exercises over 2 sittings, about 27 minutes each.

What do I need on the kit?

crash, ride, hi-hat, snare and kick. Nothing in the part asks for anything else.

How many fills are in Comfortably Numb Pulse 1994?

2 fills to learn, played 5 times: bars 1, 9, 65, 66 and 67.

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